Episode 371 : We are still the children we once were

A recent practice is to host a party after the end of a motorcycle ride spanning a few days, ostensibly to relive moments and share those memories that the others had the misfortune of missing.

Some make excuses to avoid relatives or other social engagements to mingle here. As is wont with us these days, a lot of photos are clicked of people who are a little less inhibited after consuming alcohol socially. And invariably, photos are uploaded to the most popular social network, some of which are later requested to be taken down.

Usual conversations that later take place on the most popular social network for a mobile phone are somewhat like this-

"I did not think this would be a public album! I was supposed to meet a relative that day!"
"Ok, I will remove your photos."

Another suggests, "Just change the album's date to another day."

or something like-

"Who uploaded the photo #23?"
"I did. Why?"
"Can you take it down? My wife is holding a glass of wine in it and she noticed it just now."
"Sure."
"Her sister is on FB, and she shouldn't know."

When you think about it, most of us are in our late 30s or early-to-mid 40s, and we still hide such things from parents, siblings and relatives, and would rather avoid the trouble of having to explain.

I laugh in my head, but I shouldn't because I would have been worried too if I had a Facebook account.